24 Oct
2011
24 Oct
'11
11:31 a.m.
On Mon, 24 Oct 2011, David Cantrell wrote:
Alternatively you could install MSDOS in some
virtualisation thing (on
either Windows or Linux) and if that lets you access the floppy drive at
all it will let you access the raw device using 22DISK. If you want to
do it entirely for free, then Virtualbox and FreeDOS is the way to go.
While USUALLY true, and presumable in a case such as this, there do exist
machines that have floppy drives that are running on their own drivers,
and can even be hardware incompatible, that let you access the floppy
drive, but ONLY OS access. Such machines may not let you access at all
below OS, or not let you have access to WRITE below OS access, or may have
what looks like Int13H access with major limitations, such as sector size,
etc.